Politics

The government is in negotiation with foreign governments to move their embassies to Nay Pyi Taw diplomatic zone as soon as possible and only Malaysia, Bangladesh and Brunei took land plots for their embassies, according to Nay Pyi Taw City Development Committee.

A ceremony to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Deaths of Phone Maw and Soe Naing was held at Yangon Technology University (YTU) in Yangon on March 13 during which the message of last year was read out as that of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi had not arrived in time.

Present on the occasion were families of late Phone Maw and Soe Naing, the students from YTU, the officials of political organizations, the old students of Yangon Institute of Technology (YIT) and the faculty members of the YTU.

T Khun Myat, Deputy Speaker of Lower House, reported to the seventh regular session of the second Union Parliament held in Nay Pyi Taw on March 12 on his Myanmar delegation’s objection to the paragraph mentioned textbook example of ethnic cleansing included in an emergency item collectively submitted by eight member countries of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the decisions on citizenship right to be given to Bengali Muslims.

The government's Peace Commission and Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) held an informal meeting for the first time at National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon on March 7 so that the latter could sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA).

The army released a statement in concerned with the act of British MPs in connection with Rakhine issue and the decision of European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Myanmar on March 6 through the Facebook page of Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the defence services.

Hundreds of activists staged a protest to cancel an amendment bill to the Peaceful Assembly and Procession Law in Yangon on March 5.

The demonstrators gathered at Thakhin Mya Park and started marching from there to Maha Bandoola Park about 1 pm on the same day. Talks on the amendment bill for the protesting law took place at both parks.

The third meeting to mark the Union Peace Conference also known as the 21st Century Panglong Conference will be held in early May and there might be some ethnic armed organizations that fail to attend it, said Colonel Khun Okkar, Leading Patron of PaO National Liberation Organization (PNLO).

The remarks came from the Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) that held at NRPC in Nay Pyi Taw on February 28.

As tensions between the military and the KIO/KIA have intensified, the prices of local commodities have skyrocketed. To work out a solution, Kachin political parties have asked for an immediate meeting between the KIO/KIA and the military.

Tensions between the KIO/KIA and the military increased last month after the KIO destroyed bridges in eastern Sumprabum during clashes.